CONTENTS. 
IX 
Fayal — Fayal to St. Michael’s — The gardens — Foliage — 
Scenery — Lake of the Seven Cities— -Public buildings and 
streets — Leave the Azores — Arrive at Madeira — Short stay 
there in consequence of epidemic — Section commenced across 
the Atlantic to the Coast of Africa — Palma, one of the Canary 
Islands, in sight — Sounding and dredging — Cape de Yerde 
Islands in sight — Anchor off Porto Grande — Survey the 
anchorage — The town and adjacent scenery — Leave for 
Santiago — Anchor off Porto Praya — The town — Its natives — 
Dredging for pink coral — Proceed towards the African coast — 
Course altered for St. Paul’s Eocks — The rocks in sight — 
Made fast by a hawser — Crossing the Line — The old customs 
— The southern constellations — Arrive at Fernando Noronha 
— Disappointment at not being able to land for collecting 
specimens — Sounding and dredging — Cape Antonio in sight 
— Anchor off Bahia — The city — Excursions in the country — 
Brazilian scenery — Foliage and vegetable products — Case of 
yellow fever — Leave Bahia — Section commenced to Cape of 
Good Hope — Island of Trinidad — Passage across the South 
Atlantic — The drift nets — Incidents of the voyage — Sea-birds 
— The soundings — Pick up the westerlies — Tristan d’Acunha 
in sight — The settlement of Edinburgh — Squally weather — 
Visit the Inaccessible Island — The Brothers Stoltenhoff: 
their story — Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope, in sight 
— Anchor in Simon’s Bay — Placed in quarantine .... 78 
CHAPTEE VI. 
simon’s bay (cape of good hope) to maeion and ceozet islands, 
TO KEEGUELEN LAND AND THE HEAED ISLANDS, THE ANTAECTIC 
EEGIONS, AND TO MELBODENE (AUSTEALIA). 
Simon’s Town — Visit to Cape Town — Discovery of diamonds — 
From Simon’s Bay to Table Bay, round the Cape of Storms — 
Anchor in Table Bay — The Challenger’s ball— Beturn ball by 
the residents — Eeturn to Simon’s Bay — Leave the Cape — The 
Agulhas current— The “roaring forties” — Christmas Day 
1873— Sight and land on Marion Island — Vast numbers of 
albatross and other sea-birds— Prince Edward’s Island— Sight 
the Crozet Islands — Passage to Kerguelen Land — Arrival at 
and description of the island — Leave Christmas Harbour — 
The scenery — Anchor in Betsy Cove — From thence to Eoyal 
Sound — Three Island Bay — Greenland Harbour — Cascade 
